The Adelaide Timber Company was a family saw mill company that had timber mills and timber railway lines across a number of locations in Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
| Company type | Saw mill |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Australia |
The businesses were established in South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria as part of the Shepherdson family business.[1]
Mills
edit- Mount Barker, South Australia (1850–1860 ?)
- Springhill, Victoria (Australia) (1862–1877 ?)
- Adelaide, South Australia (hills to east) (1878–1894 ?)
- Gugeri's Siding on Mundaring Weir railway line (1895–1900s ?)
- Greenbushes, Western Australia (1899–1909)
- Wilga, Western Australia (1908–1984)[2]
- East Witchcliffe (1929)[3][4]
Notes
edit- ^ Adelaide Timber Company (1899), Records, retrieved 23 December 2018
- ^ Gunzburg, Adrian and Austin, Jeff (2008) Rails through the Bush: Timber and Firewood Tramways and Railway Contractors of Western Australia Perth, W.A. Rail Heritage WA. ISBN 978-0-9803922-2-7 pp. 132–134
- ^ Acquired from the failed W.A. Jarrah Forests Ltd company, see also Woodland, E.W.(1968) Locomotives of the Adelaide Timber Co. Ltd. Bulletin Australian Railway Historical Society, No. 372, Oct. 1968, pp. 249–25351
- ^ Austin, Jeff.(1980) Adelaide Timber Company tramways. Light Railways, No. 107, Jan. 1980, p. 23-24,